FFXIV Random Complaint Thread III: Zenos was the best part of SB

[octopus]

lol I use the mouse to press the limit break button, that's pretty much it.

Edit: oh, and potd pomanders

[Fondue]

Will never happen. Because no amount of balancing or nerfing to the damage of high level abilities would put them on par with lower level players who don't have them yet. Like how would you balance Nastrond and Dragon Fire Dive in Satasha when Dragoon at that level doesn't even have Jump or an AoE or oGCDs yet?

Who cares? Why does that matter to anyone, the higher level player is only there to help the aoeless scrub

[Shenrien]

FFXI taught me to never use my mouse for anything (which has admittedly made it difficult to get into other MMOs...), and I've continued that into this game outside of a handful of menu actions and placing ground markers. What do you use your mouse to do?

My mouse has 12 buttons mapped onto the thumb, and its hella useful for quick camera movement, why is your hand not on your mouse in ffxiv?

[The Stig]

I would rather they keep the high level skills unlocked for players who have them (reached the level).


Show low level/noobs the coolness of being high level. Inspire.

[Raldo]

My mouse has 12 buttons mapped onto the thumb, and its hella useful for quick camera movement, why is your hand not on your mouse in ffxiv?

I'll admit my use case is not common, but I play on a laptop, so my options are a garbage trackpad that sometimes doesn't register my mouse clicks, or a wireless mouse on my leg/couch. I don't play FPSs, so quick camera movement is never necessary. This game certainly has no need for it (though now that you mention it, I do recall having trouble finding the Leviathan plumes on occasion back when that was relevant content).

I will definitely admit to despising ground-targetted moves. No way to do that on a keyboard. I was glad to see Flaming Arrow go, and I have Salted Earth on a macro with <t>. Placing a mage LB makes me die inside, and I'm sure I forgot to use the ground-targetted stuff as much as I should have when I leveled my healers. Good thing I hate healing, and I'm so glad that Freeze is useless.

[Destinye]

Other games can make it work, so S-E could do. I mean, if they weren't S-E.

Then there's that awkward moment when you realize Eureka employs this system on a base level. So SE can clearly make it work in regular content but they feel the "difficulty" is just right and resorts to ilvl sync as a last resort.

[Fiye]

Then there's that awkward moment when you realize Eureka employs this system on a base level. So SE can clearly make it work in regular content but they feel the "difficulty" is just right and resorts to ilvl sync as a last resort.

Eh? I mean no and yes? Eureka is still Level70 ilv300 content. Its just that instead of leveling up and getting more vit/attributes your levels just feed into an equation where your incoming and outgoing damage modifiers are altered.

They could make it so once you unlock a job ability that's it (No level requirement) and tie it into quests but even then you get into stormblood territory and then even that doesn't work well.

They could do it but I don't think it'd be a quick bandaid thing. It'd have to be something they'd do during an expansion launch window.

[Hioki]

Eh? I mean no and yes? Eureka is still Level70 ilv300 content. Its just that instead of leveling up and getting more vit/attributes your levels just feed into an equation where your incoming and outgoing damage modifiers are altered.

So why can't we apply a similar scaled incoming/outgoing modifier on a level cap dungeon?

[Kaisha]

They would scale it to such an extreme that you'd need to be doing a proficient rotation with all your offgcds to keep up with someone who still only has their basic 1-2-3.

[Hioki]

They would scale it to such an extreme that you'd need to be doing a proficient rotation with all your offgcds to keep up with someone who still only has their basic 1-2-3.

You'd be doing that anyways at 70. At worst you maintain your current muscle memory, at best your improving your muscle memory on the 70 rotation. You at least remain engaged and don't have to remember why lancer was awful until full thrust.

[Fiye]

You'd be doing that anyways at 70. At worst you maintain your current muscle memory, at best your improving your muscle memory on the 70 rotation. You at least remain engaged and don't have to remember why lancer was awful until full thrust.

I only do level capped content on DRG. I have macros to switch combos after the 5th tier hit and I'm not doing that shit manually.

And having been leveling BRD its so much funner at 60 than 50. And I can't wait for the DOT tics to go to 30 second duration than 18.

[The Stig]

And I can't wait for the DOT tics to go to 30 second duration than 18.

And also a 1 button refresh of both DoTs!

[Yuri-G]

finally did the last stormblood quest so far. while it was fantastic and unexpected (y'all know what I'm talking about) there was one small complaint...

Spoiler: show

ruin + physic + tri-bind. that's it. no dots? REALLY? alphinaud you are a terrible fucking summoner and you should be ashamed of yourself.

soooooooo fun but kinda LOL at the same time

[Anoat]

Still better than Tataru. Bitch made me fail that one duty twice for being terrible.

[Anoat]

Did leveling roulette on my DRK last night and got Cutter’s Cry. Got to the sandworm boss, and the healer didn’t have Esuna set so of course we wiped due to the DOT. One of the the sprout DPS starts crying saying I’m a bad tank that can’t hold aggro. I tried to explain to him the mechanics of the fight but he was having none of it. Anyways, the healer got Esuna set for the next fight and we cleared it easily. One more sprout for the blacklist.

[Fiye]

Its amazing how my b-list has transitioned from RMT spam tells into x-server people I'll likely never see again.

[Twilight Sky]

I stopped b-listing RMT because they'll just make new ones anyway.

[Fiye]

Honestly I haven't had RMT /tell me in like fucking ages.

The only time I see their spam is if I'm in Limsa for some godforsaken reason.

[Anoat]

Honestly I haven't had RMT /tell me in like fucking ages.

The only time I see their spam is if I'm in Limsa for some godforsaken reason.

One of my characters whose name starts with A gets them all the time. My main that starts with S never gets them. I’m guessing they go down the player list alphabetically until they get nuked.

[Leadleaf]

Only time I've been bothering with blacklist is to shut down randos that still think trade cancelling teleports is funny.